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France will open a consulate in Greenland on 6 February, Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said on Wednesday – calling the move a political signal as US President Donald Trump renews threats to take control of the Arctic territory.

Exclusive: Artist condemns British Museum plans as a ‘vanity project’ that could cause ‘irreversible damage’ to priceless artefact

France's cuts to greenhouse gas emissions slowed for a second straight year in 2025 and remain well off track to meeting its climate goals, according to provisional government-commissioned estimates published Tuesday.

Sadeq Hedayat (1903-1951) abandoned his training in dentistry and, later, engineering in France and Belgium, to study old Persian and Iranian mythology. He would become one of the first modernist fiction writers in Iran. He published stories, essays and plays, but The Blind Owl, a short enigmatic novel, has been…

France’s foreign minister said on Tuesday that he had summoned Iran’s ambassador to protest against what he described as the “unrestrained use of state violence against peaceful demonstrators” in Iran. Similar démarches have been made by several European governments as the death toll rises, while the United States has warned…

A Paris appeal court will decide whether the far-right figurehead can run for president in 2027, as attention increasingly turns to her 30-year-old protégé and MEP Jordan Bardella.

Le Pen was seen as the potential frontrunner to succeed President Emmanuel Macron in the 2027 election until last year’s ruling

Fewer babies, more elderly people, rising life expectancy: France has gradually changed and is now at a demographic turning point. For the first time since World War II, there were more deaths than births, according to the national statistics institute Insee.

The satirical title targeted in an Islamist attack 10 years ago published a racist, sexist caricature of me that speaks volumes about its values, says French writer and activist Rokhaya Diallo

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen said Tuesday she had "no sense" of having committed any offence at the opening of an appeals trial which she hopes will save her 2027 run for president.

France’s newly inaugurated anti–organised crime bureau is to investigate the murder of the former Corsican separatist leader Alain Orsoni, who was shot dead while attending his mother’s funeral on Monday afternoon.